CA2328169C - Coarse frequency synchronisation in multicarrier systems - Google Patents
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Abstract
For performing a coarse frequency synchronization compensat-ing for a carrier frequency deviation from an oscillator frequency in a demodulation system capable of demodulating a signal having a frame structure, the frame structure com-prising at least one useful symbol and a reference symbol which is a amplitude-modulated sequence, firstly the signal is received. Thereafter, the received signal is down-converted. Then, an amplitude-demodulation of the down-converted signal is performed in order to generate an enve-lope. This envelope is correlated with a predetermined ref-erence pattern in order to determine the carrier frequency deviation. Finally, the oscillator frequency is controlled based on the carrier frequency deviation. The reference sym-bol may comprise two identical sequences. In this case, the envelope obtained by the amplitude-demodulation has two por-tions which are based on the identical sequences. One of the portions of the envelope is correlated with the other one of the portions in order to determine the carrier frequence de-viation. The oscillator frequency is controlled based on the determined carrier frequency deviation.
Description
COARSE FREQUENCY SYNCHRONIZATION IN MULTICARRIER SYSTEMS
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for performing a coarse frequency synchronization compensating for a carrier frequency deviation from an oscillator fre-quency in a demodulation system. In particular, the present invention relates to such methods and apparatus in a demodu-lation system for multi-carrier modulation signals, wherein the mufti-carrier modulation (MCM) signals have a frame structure comprising at least one useful symbol and a refer-ence symbol.
The present invention is particularly useful in a MCM trans mission system using an orthogonal frequency division multi plexing (OFDM) for digital broadcasting.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In a mufti carrier transmission system (MCM, OFDM), the ef-fect of a carrier frequency offset is substantially more considerable than in a single carrier transmission system.
MCM is more sensitive to phase noise and frequency offset which occurs as amplitude distortion and inter carrier in-terference (ICI). The inter carrier interference has the ef-fect that the subcarriers are no longer orthogonal in rela-tion to each other. Frequency offsets occur after power on or also later due to frequency deviation of the oscillators used for downconversion into baseband. Typical accuracies for the frequency of a free running oscillator are about ~50 ppm of the carrier frequency. With a carrier frequency in the S-band of 2.34 Ghz, for example, there will be a maximum local oscillator (LO) frequency deviation of above 100 kHz (117.25 kHz). The above named effects result in high re-quirements on the algorithm used for frequency offset cor-rection.
DESCRIPTION OF PRIOR ART
Most prior art algorithms for frequency synchronization di-vide frequency correction into two stages. In the first stage, a coarse synchronization is performed. In the second stage, a fine correction can be achieved. A frequently used algorithm for coarse synchronization of the carrier fre-quency uses a synchronization symbol which has a special spectral pattern in the frequency domain. Such a synchroni-zation symbol is, for example, a CAZAC sequence (CAZAC -Constant Amplitude Zero Autocorrelation). Through compari-son, i . a . the correlation, of the power spectrum of the re-ceived signal with that of the transmitted signal, the fre-quency carrier offset can be coarsely estimated. These prior art algorithms all work in the frequency domain. Reference is made, for example, to Ferdinand Clal3en, Heinrich Meyr, "Synchronization Algorithms for an OFDM System for Mobile Communication", ITG-Fachtagung 130, Codierung fur Quelle, Kanal and ilbertragung, pp. 105 - 113, Oct. 26-28, 1994; and Timothy M. Schmidl, Donald C. Cox, "Low-Overhead, Low-Complexity [Burst] Synchronization for OFDM", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communication ICC
1996, pp. 1301-1306 (1996).
For the coarse synchronization of the carrier frequency, Paul H. Moose, "A Technique for Orthogonal Frequency Divi-sion Multiplexing Frequency Offset Correction", IEEE Trans-action On Communications, Vol. 42, No. 10, October 1994, suggest increasing the spacing between the subcarriers such that the subcarrier distance is greater than the maximum frequency difference between the received and transmitted carriers. The subcarrier distance is increased by reducing the number of sample values which are transformed by the Fast Fourier Transform. This corresponds to a reduction of the number of sampling values which are transformed by the Fast Fourier Transform.
WO 9800946 A relates to a system for a timing and frequency synchronization of OFDM signals. OFDM training symbols are used to obtain full synchronization in less than two data frames. The OFDM training symbols are placed into the OFDM
signal, preferably at least once every frame. The first OFDM
training symbol is produced by modulating the even-numbered OFDM sub-carriers whereas the odd-numbered OFDM sub-carriers are suppressed. Thus, the first OFDM training symbol is pro-duced by modulating the even-numbered carriers of this sym-bol with a first predetermined pseudo noise sequence. This results in a time-domain OFDM symbol that has two identical halfs since each of the even-numbered sub-carrier frequen-cies repeats every half symbol interval. In case a carrier frequency offset is not greater than a sub-carrier band-width, the carrier frequency offset can be determined using the phase difference between the two halfs of the first OFDM
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for performing a coarse frequency synchronization compensating for a carrier frequency deviation from an oscillator fre-quency in a demodulation system. In particular, the present invention relates to such methods and apparatus in a demodu-lation system for multi-carrier modulation signals, wherein the mufti-carrier modulation (MCM) signals have a frame structure comprising at least one useful symbol and a refer-ence symbol.
The present invention is particularly useful in a MCM trans mission system using an orthogonal frequency division multi plexing (OFDM) for digital broadcasting.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In a mufti carrier transmission system (MCM, OFDM), the ef-fect of a carrier frequency offset is substantially more considerable than in a single carrier transmission system.
MCM is more sensitive to phase noise and frequency offset which occurs as amplitude distortion and inter carrier in-terference (ICI). The inter carrier interference has the ef-fect that the subcarriers are no longer orthogonal in rela-tion to each other. Frequency offsets occur after power on or also later due to frequency deviation of the oscillators used for downconversion into baseband. Typical accuracies for the frequency of a free running oscillator are about ~50 ppm of the carrier frequency. With a carrier frequency in the S-band of 2.34 Ghz, for example, there will be a maximum local oscillator (LO) frequency deviation of above 100 kHz (117.25 kHz). The above named effects result in high re-quirements on the algorithm used for frequency offset cor-rection.
DESCRIPTION OF PRIOR ART
Most prior art algorithms for frequency synchronization di-vide frequency correction into two stages. In the first stage, a coarse synchronization is performed. In the second stage, a fine correction can be achieved. A frequently used algorithm for coarse synchronization of the carrier fre-quency uses a synchronization symbol which has a special spectral pattern in the frequency domain. Such a synchroni-zation symbol is, for example, a CAZAC sequence (CAZAC -Constant Amplitude Zero Autocorrelation). Through compari-son, i . a . the correlation, of the power spectrum of the re-ceived signal with that of the transmitted signal, the fre-quency carrier offset can be coarsely estimated. These prior art algorithms all work in the frequency domain. Reference is made, for example, to Ferdinand Clal3en, Heinrich Meyr, "Synchronization Algorithms for an OFDM System for Mobile Communication", ITG-Fachtagung 130, Codierung fur Quelle, Kanal and ilbertragung, pp. 105 - 113, Oct. 26-28, 1994; and Timothy M. Schmidl, Donald C. Cox, "Low-Overhead, Low-Complexity [Burst] Synchronization for OFDM", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communication ICC
1996, pp. 1301-1306 (1996).
For the coarse synchronization of the carrier frequency, Paul H. Moose, "A Technique for Orthogonal Frequency Divi-sion Multiplexing Frequency Offset Correction", IEEE Trans-action On Communications, Vol. 42, No. 10, October 1994, suggest increasing the spacing between the subcarriers such that the subcarrier distance is greater than the maximum frequency difference between the received and transmitted carriers. The subcarrier distance is increased by reducing the number of sample values which are transformed by the Fast Fourier Transform. This corresponds to a reduction of the number of sampling values which are transformed by the Fast Fourier Transform.
WO 9800946 A relates to a system for a timing and frequency synchronization of OFDM signals. OFDM training symbols are used to obtain full synchronization in less than two data frames. The OFDM training symbols are placed into the OFDM
signal, preferably at least once every frame. The first OFDM
training symbol is produced by modulating the even-numbered OFDM sub-carriers whereas the odd-numbered OFDM sub-carriers are suppressed. Thus, the first OFDM training symbol is pro-duced by modulating the even-numbered carriers of this sym-bol with a first predetermined pseudo noise sequence. This results in a time-domain OFDM symbol that has two identical halfs since each of the even-numbered sub-carrier frequen-cies repeats every half symbol interval. In case a carrier frequency offset is not greater than a sub-carrier band-width, the carrier frequency offset can be determined using the phase difference between the two halfs of the first OFDM
training symbol. In case the carrier frequency offset can be greater than a sub-carrier bandwidth a second OFDM training symbol is used which is formed by using a second predeter-mined pseudo noise sequence to modulate the even-numbered frequencies of this symbol and by using a third predeter-mined pseudo noise sequence to modulate the odd-numbered carriers of this symbol. This second OFDM training symbol is used in order to determine an integer part of the carrier frequency offset. This integer part and a positive or nega-tive fractional part determined from the first OFDM training symbol are used for performing the coarse frequency synchro-nization. In order to determine the integer part of the car-rier frequency offset, fast Fourier transforms of the two training symbols are required.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to provide methods and apparatus for performing a coarse frequency synchroniza-tion even in the case of frequency offsets that correspond to a multiple of the subcarrier distance in a MCM signal.
In accordance with a first aspect, the present invention provides a method of performing a coarse frequency synchro-nization compensating for a carrier frequency deviation from an oscillator frequency in a demodulation system capable of demodulating a signal having a frame structure, said frame structure comprising at least one useful symbol and a refer-ence symbol, said reference symbol being an amplitude-modulated bit sequence, the method comprising the steps of:
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to provide methods and apparatus for performing a coarse frequency synchroniza-tion even in the case of frequency offsets that correspond to a multiple of the subcarrier distance in a MCM signal.
In accordance with a first aspect, the present invention provides a method of performing a coarse frequency synchro-nization compensating for a carrier frequency deviation from an oscillator frequency in a demodulation system capable of demodulating a signal having a frame structure, said frame structure comprising at least one useful symbol and a refer-ence symbol, said reference symbol being an amplitude-modulated bit sequence, the method comprising the steps of:
receiving the signal;
down-converting the received signal;
performing an amplitude-demodulation of the down-converted signal in order to generate an envelope;
correlating the envelope with a predetermined reference pat-tern in order to determine the carrier frequency deviation;
and controlling the oscillator frequency based on the carrier frequency deviation.
In accordance with a second aspect, the present invention provides a method of performing a coarse frequency synchro-nization compensating for a carrier frequency deviation from an oscillator frequency in a demodulation system capable of demodulating a signal having a frame structure, the frame structure comprising at least one useful symbol and a refer-ence symbol, the reference symbol being an amplitude-modulated bit sequence which comprises two identical se-quences, the method comprising the steps of:
receiving the signal;
down-converting the received signal;
performing an amplitude-demodulation of the down-converted signal in order to generate an envelope, the envelope having two portions which are based on the identical sequences;
down-converting the received signal;
performing an amplitude-demodulation of the down-converted signal in order to generate an envelope;
correlating the envelope with a predetermined reference pat-tern in order to determine the carrier frequency deviation;
and controlling the oscillator frequency based on the carrier frequency deviation.
In accordance with a second aspect, the present invention provides a method of performing a coarse frequency synchro-nization compensating for a carrier frequency deviation from an oscillator frequency in a demodulation system capable of demodulating a signal having a frame structure, the frame structure comprising at least one useful symbol and a refer-ence symbol, the reference symbol being an amplitude-modulated bit sequence which comprises two identical se-quences, the method comprising the steps of:
receiving the signal;
down-converting the received signal;
performing an amplitude-demodulation of the down-converted signal in order to generate an envelope, the envelope having two portions which are based on the identical sequences;
correlating one of the portions of the envelope with another one of the portions in order to determine the carrier fre-quency deviation; and controlling the oscillator frequency based on the carrier frequency deviation.
In accordance with a third aspect, the present invention provides an apparatus for performing a coarse frequency syn-chronization compensating for a carrier frequency deviation from an oscillator frequency, for a demodulation system ca pable of demodulating a signal having a frame structure, the frame structure comprising at least one useful symbol and a reference symbol, the reference symbol being an amplitude modulated bit sequence, the apparatus comprising:
receiving means for receiving the signal;
a down-converter for down-converting the received signal;
an amplitude-demodulator for performing an amplitude-demodulation of the down-converted signal in order to gener-ate an envelope;
a correlator for correlating the envelope with a predeter-mined reference pattern in order to determine the carrier frequency deviation; and means for controlling the oscillator frequency based on the carrier frequency deviation.
-In accordance with a fourth aspect, the present invention provides an apparatus for performing a coarse frequency syn-chronization compensating for a carrier frequency deviation from an oscillator frequency, for a demodulation system ca-pable of demodulating a signal having a frame structure, the frame structure comprising at least one useful symbol and a reference symbol, the reference symbol being an amplitude-modulated bit sequence which comprises two identical se-quences, the apparatus comprising:
receiving means for receiving the signal;
a down-converter for down-converting the received signal;
an amplitude-demodulator for performing an amplitude-demodulation of the down-converted signal in order to gener-ate an envelope, the envelope having two portions which are based on the identical sequences;
a correlator for correlating one of the portions of the en-velope with another one of the portions in order to deter-mine the carrier frequency deviation; and means for controlling the oscillator frequency based on the carrier frequency deviation.
The present invention provides a new scheme for a coarse frequency synchronization, in particular in MCM systems. The present invention is particularly useful in systems which use a differential coding and mapping along the frequency axis. In accordance with the present invention, the algo-rithm for the coarse frequency synchronization is based on a -reference symbol which is formed by an amplitude-modulated sequence. The length of this amplitude-modulated sequence symbol may be less than that of the useful symbol. The algo-rithm in accordance with the present invention can be used in the time domain or the frequency domain. In order to de-termine a frequency offset, a correlation of the receivea MCM symbol with a predetermined reference pattern is per-formed in accordance with a first embodiment of the present invention. In accordance with a second embodiment of the present invention, the reference symbol comprises at least two identical amplitude-modulated sequences, wherein a fre-quency offset is determined based on a correlation between demodulated portions corresponding to these identical se-quences.
It is preferred to select the mean amplitude of the refer-ence symbol identically to the mean amplitude of the rest of the signal, i.e. to select all of the samples of the demodu-lated amplitude-modulated sequence in the middle of their amplitude range. Care has to be taken that the time constant of an automatic gain control (AGC) is selected to be long enough that the strong signal part of the reference symbol does not excessively influence the automatic gain control signal. Otherwise, the signal occuring after the amplitude modulated sequence would be strongly attenuated.
According to preferred embodiments of the present invention, the amplitude-modulated sequence of the reference symbol is chosen to be a pseudo random bit sequence (PRBS) since such a sequence has good autocorrelation properties with a dis-tinct correlation maximum in a correlation signal which should be as wide as possible.
_ g -In accordance with preferred embodiments of the present in-vention, the coarse frequency synchronization can be per-formed using the amplitude-modulated sequence after a frame synchronization of a MCM signal has been accomplished. The inventive algorithm works both in the time and the frequency domains. Frequency offsets as high as ~10 times the subcar-rier spacing can be corrected.
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In the following, preferred embodiments of the present in vention will be explained in detail on the basis of the drawings enclosed, in which:
Figure 1 shows a schematic overview of a MCM transmission system comprising a coarse frequency synchroniza-tion unit in accordance with the present inven-tion;
Figure 2 shows a schematic block diagram for illustrating the coarse frequency synchronization in accordance with the present invention;
Figure 3 shows a schematic view of a reference symbol com-prising two identical sequences;
Figure 4 shows a schematic view of a typical MCM signal having a frame structure;
Figure 5 shows a block diagram of an embodiment of a coarse frequency synchronization unit;
Figure 6 shows a block diagram of another embodiment of a coarse frequency synchronization unit; and Figure 7 shows a block diagram of still another embodiment of a coarse frequency synchronization unit.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
Before discussing the present invention in detail, the mode of operation of a MCM transmission system is described re-ferring to Figure 1. Although the present invention is ex-plained referring to a MCM system as shown in Figure 1, it is clear that the present invention can be used i,n connec-tion with different signal transmissions as long as the transmitted signal comprises useful symbols and reference symbols.
Referring to Figure l, at 100 a MCM transmitter is shown that substantially corresponds to a prior art MCM transmit-ter. A description of such a MCM transmitter can be found, for example, in William Y. Zou, Yiyan Wu, "COFDM: AN
OVERVIEW", IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, vol. 41, No.
1, March 1995.
A data source 102 provides a serial bitstream 104 to the MCM
transmitter. The incoming serial bitstream 104 is applied to a bit-carrier mapper 106 which produces a sequence of spec-tra 108 from the incoming serial bitstream 104. An inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) 110 is performed on the se-quence of spectra 108 in order to produce a MCM time domain signal 112. The MCM time domain signal forms the useful MCM
symbol of the MCM time signal. To avoid intersymbol inter-s ference (ISI) caused by multipath distortion, a unit 114 is provided for inserting a guard interval of fixed length be-tween adjacent MCM symbols in time. In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the last part of the useful MCM symbol is used as the guard interval by placing same in front of the useful symbol. The resulting MCM symbol is shown at 115 in Figure 1 and corresponds to a MCM symbol 160 depicted in Figure 4.
Figure 4 shows the construction of a typical MCM signal hav-ing a frame structure. One frame of the MCM time signal is composed of a plurality of MCM symbols 160. Each MCM symbol 160 is formed by an useful symbol 162 and a guard interval 164 associated therewith. As shown in Figure 4, each frame comprises one reference symbol 166. The present invention can advantageously be used with such a MCM signal, however, such a signal structure being not necessary for performing the present invention as long as the transmitted signal com-prises a useful portion and at least one reference symbol.
In order to obtain the final frame structure shown in Figure 4, a unit 116 for adding a reference symbol for each prede-termined number of MCM symbols is provided.
In accordance with the present invention, the reference sym-bol is an amplitude modulated bit sequence. Thus, an ampli-tude modulation of a bit sequence is performed such that the envelope of the amplitude modulated bit sequence defines a reference pattern of the reference symbol. This reference pattern defined by the envelope of the amplitude modulated bit sequence has to be detected when receiving the MCM sig-nal at a MCM receiver. In a preferred embodiment of the pre-y sent invention, a pseudo random bit sequence having good autocorrelation properties is used as the bit sequence for the amplitude modulation.
The choice of length and repetition rate of the reference symbol depends on the properties of the channel through which the MCM signal is transmitted, e.g. the coherence time of the channel. In addition, the repetition rate and the length of the reference symbol, in other words the number of useful symbols in each frame, depends on the receiver re-quirements concerning mean time for initial synchronization and mean time for resynchronization after synchronization loss due to a channel fade.
The resulting MCM signal having the structure shown at 118 in Figure 1 is applied to the transmitter front end 120.
Roughly speaking, at the transmitter front end 120, a digi-tal/analog conversion and an up-converting of the MCM signal is performed. Thereafter, the MCM signal is transmitted through a channel 122.
Following, the mode of operation of a MCM receiver 130 is shortly described referring to Figure 1. The MCM signal is received at the receiver front end 132. In the receiver front end 132, the MCM signal is down-converted and, fur-thermore, a analog/digital conversion of the down-converted signal is performed.
The down-converted MCM signal is provided to a symbol frame/carrier frequency synchronization unit 134.
A first object of the symbol frame/carrier frequency syn-chronization unit is to perform a frame synchronization on the basis of the amplitude-modulated reference symbol. This frame synchronization is performed on the basis of a corre lation between the amplitude-demodulated reference symbol an a predetermined reference pattern stored in the MCM re ceiver.
A second object of the symbol frame/carrier frequency syn-chronization unit is to perform a coarse frequency synchro-nization of the MCM signal. To this end, the symbol frame/carrier frequency synchronization unit 134 serves as a coarse frequency synchronization unit for determining a coarse frequency offset of the carrier frequence caused, for example, by a difference of the frequencies between the lo-cal oscillator of the transmitter and the local oscillator of the receiver. The determined frequency is used in order to perform a coarse frequency correction. The mode of opera-tion of the coarse frequency synchronization unit is de-scribed in detail referring to Figures 2 and 3 hereinafter.
As described above, the frame synchronization unit 134 de-termines the location of the reference symbol in the MCM
signal. Based on the determination of the frame synchroniza-tion unit 134, a reference symbol extracting unit 136 ex-tracts the framing information, i.e. the reference symbol, from the MCM signal coming from the receiver front end 132.
After the extraction of the reference symbol, the MCM signal is applied to a guard interval removal unit 138. The result of the signal processing performed hereherto in the MCM re-ceiver are the useful MCM symbols.
The useful MCM symbols output from the guard interval re-moval unit 138 are provided to a fast Fourier transform unit 140 in order to provide a sequence of spectra from the use ful symbols. Thereafter, the sequence of spectra is provided to a carrier-bit mapper 142 in which the serial bitstream is recovered. This serial bitstream is provided to a data sink 144.
Following, the mode of operation of the coarse frequency synchronization unit will be described in detail referring to Figures 2 and 3 . As it is shown in Figure 2 , the output of the receiver front end 132 is connected to an ana-log/digital converter 200. The down-converted MCM signal is sampled at the output of the analog/digital converter 200 and is applied to a frame/timing synchronization unit 202.
In a preferred embodiment, a fast running automatic gain control (AGC) (not shown) is provided preceding the frame/timing synchronization unit in order to eliminate fast channel fluctuations. The fast AGC is used in addition to the normally slow AGC in the signal path, in the case of transmission over a multipath channel with long channel im-pulse response and frequency selective fading. The fast AGC
adjusts the average amplitude range of the signal to the known average amplitude of the reference symbol.
As described above, the frame/timing synchronization unit uses the amplitude-modulated sequence in the received signal in order to extract the framing information from the MCM
signal and further to remove the guard intervals therefrom.
After the frame/timing synchronization unit 202 it follows a coarse frequency synchronization unit 204 which estimates a coarse frequency offset based on the amplitude-modulated se-quence of the reference symbol of the MCM signal. In the coarse frequency synchronization unit 204, a frequency off-set of the carrier frequency with respect to the oscillator frequency in the MCM receiver is determined in oder to per-form a frequency offset correction in a block 206. This fre-quency offset correction in block 206 is performed by a com-plex multiplication. The output of the frequency offset cor-rection block 206 is applied to the MCM demodulator 208 formed by the Fast Fourier Transformator 140 and the car-rier-bit mapper 142 shown in Figure 1.
In order to perform the inventive coarse frequency synchro-nization, in either case, an amplitude-demodulation has to be performed on a preprocessed MCM signal. The preprocessing may be, for example, the down-conversion and the ana-log/digital conversion of the MCM signal. The result of the amplitude-demodulation of the preprocessed MCM signal is an envelope representing the amplitude of the MCM signal.
For the amplitude demodulation a simple alphamax+ betami"-method can be used. This method is described for example in Palacherla A.: DSP-uP Routine Computes Magnitude, EDN, Octo-ber 26, 1989; and Adams, W. T., and Bradley, J.: Magnitude Approximations for Microprocessor Implementation, IEEE Mi-cro, Vol. 3, No. 5, October 1983.
It is clear that amplitude determining methods different from the described alphamaX+ betami"- method can be used. For simplification, it is possible to reduce the amplitude cal-culation to a detection as to whether the current amplitude is above or below the average amplitude. The output signal then consists of a -1/+1 sequence which can be used to de-termine a coarse frequency offset by performing a correla-tion. This correlation can easily be performed using a sim-ple integrated circuit (IC).
In addition, an oversampling of the signal received at the RF front end can be performed. For example, the received signal can be expressed with two times oversampling.
In accordance with a first embodiment of the present inven-tion, a carrier frequency offset of the MCM signal from an oscillator frequency in the MCM receiver is determined by correlating the envelope obtained by performing the ampli-tude-demodulation as described above with a predetermined reference pattern.
In case there is no frequency offset, the received reference symbol r(k) will be:
r(k) = S,,~, (k) + n(k) ( Eq .1 ) wherein n(k) designates "additive Gaussian noise" and 5,~,, de-notes the AM sequence which has been sent. In order to sim-plify the calculation the additive Gaussian noise can be ne-glected. It follows:
r(k) ~ SAM (k) ( Eq' 2 ) In case a constant frequency offset f is present, the re-ceived signal will be:
r (k) ='SAM (k) ~e~2~TMCM ( Eq. 3 ) Information regarding the frequency offset is derived from the correlation of the received signal r ( k ) with the AM se-quence S"~, which is known in the receiver:
L L
2 r(k).S~(k)= Z IS~(k)IZe~z~TM~M (Eq.4) Thus, the frequency offset is:
_r. _L
Of 2~'T arg r(k) ~ SAM ~k~ 2~T arg ~SA"' (k)~ ( Eq. 5 ) MCM ~ MCM
Since the argument of ~S~,,(k)~Z is zero the frequency offset is:
_L
Of = 1 arg i- (k) ~ 5;~,,,, (k) ( Eq . 6 ) 2~TMCM
In accordance with a second embodiment of the coarse fre-quency synchronization algorithm in accordance with the pre-sent invention, a reference symbol comprising at least two identical sequences 300 as shown in Figure 3 is used. Figure 3 shows the reference symbol of a MCM signal having two identical sequences 300 of a length of L/2 each. L desig-nates the number of values of the two sequences 300 of the reference symbol.
As shown in Figure 3, within the amplitude-modulated se-quence, there are at least two identical sections devoted to the coarse frequency synchronization. Two such sections, each containing L/2 samples, are shown at the end of the am-plitude-modulated sequence in Figure 3. The amplitude-modulated sequence contains a large number of samples. For a non-ambiguous observation of the phase, only enough samples to contain a phase rotation of 2 should be used. This num-ber is defined as L/2 in Figure 3.
Following, a mathematical derivation of the determination of a carrier frequency deviation is presented. In accordance with Figure 3, the following equation applies for the two identical sequences 300:
sI0<ks 2J $sI 2 <ksLl (Eq.7) If no frequency offset is present, the following equation 8 will be met by the received signal:
rI k+ZJ ~r(k) 0<ks 2 (Eq.8) r ( k ) designates the values of the identical sequences . k is an index from one to L/2 for the respective samples.
If there is a frequency offset of, for example, f, the re-ceived signal is:
r(k)=r(k)~e'z~"'T"'~"' (Eq.9) L j2nAj(k+2)TMCAt r(k+ 2)=r(k)~e (Eq.lO) r(k) designates sample values of the received portion which are based on the identical sequences. Information regarding the frequency offset is derived from the correlation of the received signal r (k +L /2) with the received signal r (k) . This correlation is given by the following equation:
_L 1, r' k+ ~ i-~k)= Z Ir(k)IZe'Z'~ZTMCM (Eq.ll) r' designates the complex conjugate of the sample values of the portion mentioned above.
Thus, the frequency offset is _L _L
0f = Ll arg r k+ ~ W '(k) - L1 arg Ir(k~2 (Eq.l2) 2~ 2 TMCM 2~ 2 TMCM
Since the argument of ~r(k)~Z equals zero, the frequency offset becomes _L
0f = Ll arg r k + ~ W '(k) ( Eq.13 ) 2~ 2 TMCM
Thus, it is clear that in both embodiments, described above, the frequency position of the maximum of the resulting out-put of the correlation determines the estimated value of the offset carrier. Furthermore, as it is also shown in Figure 2, the correction is performed in a feed forward structure.
An apparatus for performing the coarse frequency synchroni-zation using a reference symbol having two identical sec-tions of the length of L/2 each which has been described above is shown in Figure 5.
Also shown in Figure 5 is the frame/timing synchronization unit 202. As can be seen from Figure 5, a unit 400 for per-forming a fast automatic gain control (time constant < MCM
symbol duration) can be provided preceding the frame/timing synchronization unit. The output of the frame/timing syn-chronization unit 202 is connected to an extracting unit 402 which is operable to extract the last L samples from the reference symbol. The output of the extracting unit 402 is connected to a demultiplexer 404 which recovers the two identical sections having the length of L/2 each from the L
samples. The identical sections are applied to a correlator 406 which performs the correlation as described above.
The output of the correlator 406 is connected to an opera-tion unit 408 for performing an argument operation on the output signal of the correlator 406. The output of the op-eration unit 408 is connected to a multiplier 410 which mul-tiplies the output by 1/2~(L /2)TMCM ) ~ A further operation unit 412 for performing a e-'~'~~"'~"'~L> operation is provided in order to derive the frequency shift for the whole MCM symbol from the frequency shift determined for the portion having the length of L, i.e. the identical sections 300 shown in Figure 3.
In case of a channel with strong reflections, for example due to a high building density, the correlations described above might be insufficient for obtaining a suitable coarse frequency synchronization. Therefore, in accordance with a third embodiment of the present invention, corresponding values of the two portions which are correlated in accor-dance with a second embodiment, can be weighting with corre-sponding values of stored predetermined reference patterns corresponding to said two identical sequences of the refer-ence symbol. This weighting can maximize the probability of correctly determining the frequency offset. The mathematical description of this weighting is as follows:
a ~f = L1 arg z r k + ~ W' ~k~ ~ S.vN ~k~n,N k + 2 ( Eq ~ 14 ) 2~ 2 TMCM
S"~, designates the amplitude-modulated sequence which is known in the receiver, and S;,,N designates the complex conju-gate thereof.
If the above correlations are calculated in the frequency domain, the amount of ~ r ~( (Eq.lS) I"_'i [ T' k + 2 ~ ~ ~'~k~~ ~ ~S",,, ~k~An, I k + 2 ~~
is used rather than the argument. This amount is maximized as a function of a frequency correction. The position of the maximum determines the estimation of the frequency devia-tion. As mentioned above, the correction is performed in a feed forward structure.
A block diagram of an apparatus for performing the coarse frequency synchronization in accordance with the third em-bodiment of the present invention is shown in Figure 6.
Blocks 400, 202, 402, 404 and 406 shown in the left branch of Figure 6 correspond to the respective blocks in Figure 5.
In the right branch of Figure 6, the preparation of the known AM sequence is shown. The known AM sequence is read from a memory 420 and applied to an extracting unit 422 which extracts the last L samples therefrom. The output of the extracting unit 422 is connected to a demultiplexer 424 having one input and two outputs in order to recover the identical sections having a length of L/2 each. Both outputs of the demultiplexer are connected with a correlator 426 which performs a correlation between the two identical sec-tions.
A multiplier 428 is provided which multiplies the output of the correlator 406 by the output of the correlator 426. The output of the multiplier 428 is connected to an argument op-eration unit 408. The output of the multiplier is applied to an argument operation unit 408, a multiplier 410 and an op-eration unit 412 in sequence. The mode of operation of these units corresponds to that of the corresponding units which are shown in Figure 5.
A alternative structure of an apparatus for performing the coarse frequency synchronization in accordance with the third embodiment of the present invention in the frequency domain is shown in Figure 7. As shown in Figure 7, a fast Fourier transformator 440 is provided between the demulti-plexer 404 and a correlator 442, and a fast Fourier trans-formator 444 is provided between the demultiplexer 424 and a correlator 426. The outputs of the correlators 442 and 446 are connected to a multiplier 445. The output of the multi-plier 445 is connected to a maximum searching unit 447. Fi-nally, a unit 448 for performing a e-'~'~"""'"'> operation is provided. The output of this unit 448 represents the output of the coarse frequency synchronization device.
In case of performing the coarse frequency synchronization in the frequency domain it is possible to make use of the existing FFT at the beginning of the detection for the coarse frequency synchronization rather than providing an additional fast Fourier transformator.
Following the course frequency synchronization described above, a fine frequency synchronization can be performed in case such a fine frequency synchronization is useful.
In accordance with a third aspect, the present invention provides an apparatus for performing a coarse frequency syn-chronization compensating for a carrier frequency deviation from an oscillator frequency, for a demodulation system ca pable of demodulating a signal having a frame structure, the frame structure comprising at least one useful symbol and a reference symbol, the reference symbol being an amplitude modulated bit sequence, the apparatus comprising:
receiving means for receiving the signal;
a down-converter for down-converting the received signal;
an amplitude-demodulator for performing an amplitude-demodulation of the down-converted signal in order to gener-ate an envelope;
a correlator for correlating the envelope with a predeter-mined reference pattern in order to determine the carrier frequency deviation; and means for controlling the oscillator frequency based on the carrier frequency deviation.
-In accordance with a fourth aspect, the present invention provides an apparatus for performing a coarse frequency syn-chronization compensating for a carrier frequency deviation from an oscillator frequency, for a demodulation system ca-pable of demodulating a signal having a frame structure, the frame structure comprising at least one useful symbol and a reference symbol, the reference symbol being an amplitude-modulated bit sequence which comprises two identical se-quences, the apparatus comprising:
receiving means for receiving the signal;
a down-converter for down-converting the received signal;
an amplitude-demodulator for performing an amplitude-demodulation of the down-converted signal in order to gener-ate an envelope, the envelope having two portions which are based on the identical sequences;
a correlator for correlating one of the portions of the en-velope with another one of the portions in order to deter-mine the carrier frequency deviation; and means for controlling the oscillator frequency based on the carrier frequency deviation.
The present invention provides a new scheme for a coarse frequency synchronization, in particular in MCM systems. The present invention is particularly useful in systems which use a differential coding and mapping along the frequency axis. In accordance with the present invention, the algo-rithm for the coarse frequency synchronization is based on a -reference symbol which is formed by an amplitude-modulated sequence. The length of this amplitude-modulated sequence symbol may be less than that of the useful symbol. The algo-rithm in accordance with the present invention can be used in the time domain or the frequency domain. In order to de-termine a frequency offset, a correlation of the receivea MCM symbol with a predetermined reference pattern is per-formed in accordance with a first embodiment of the present invention. In accordance with a second embodiment of the present invention, the reference symbol comprises at least two identical amplitude-modulated sequences, wherein a fre-quency offset is determined based on a correlation between demodulated portions corresponding to these identical se-quences.
It is preferred to select the mean amplitude of the refer-ence symbol identically to the mean amplitude of the rest of the signal, i.e. to select all of the samples of the demodu-lated amplitude-modulated sequence in the middle of their amplitude range. Care has to be taken that the time constant of an automatic gain control (AGC) is selected to be long enough that the strong signal part of the reference symbol does not excessively influence the automatic gain control signal. Otherwise, the signal occuring after the amplitude modulated sequence would be strongly attenuated.
According to preferred embodiments of the present invention, the amplitude-modulated sequence of the reference symbol is chosen to be a pseudo random bit sequence (PRBS) since such a sequence has good autocorrelation properties with a dis-tinct correlation maximum in a correlation signal which should be as wide as possible.
_ g -In accordance with preferred embodiments of the present in-vention, the coarse frequency synchronization can be per-formed using the amplitude-modulated sequence after a frame synchronization of a MCM signal has been accomplished. The inventive algorithm works both in the time and the frequency domains. Frequency offsets as high as ~10 times the subcar-rier spacing can be corrected.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
In the following, preferred embodiments of the present in vention will be explained in detail on the basis of the drawings enclosed, in which:
Figure 1 shows a schematic overview of a MCM transmission system comprising a coarse frequency synchroniza-tion unit in accordance with the present inven-tion;
Figure 2 shows a schematic block diagram for illustrating the coarse frequency synchronization in accordance with the present invention;
Figure 3 shows a schematic view of a reference symbol com-prising two identical sequences;
Figure 4 shows a schematic view of a typical MCM signal having a frame structure;
Figure 5 shows a block diagram of an embodiment of a coarse frequency synchronization unit;
Figure 6 shows a block diagram of another embodiment of a coarse frequency synchronization unit; and Figure 7 shows a block diagram of still another embodiment of a coarse frequency synchronization unit.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
Before discussing the present invention in detail, the mode of operation of a MCM transmission system is described re-ferring to Figure 1. Although the present invention is ex-plained referring to a MCM system as shown in Figure 1, it is clear that the present invention can be used i,n connec-tion with different signal transmissions as long as the transmitted signal comprises useful symbols and reference symbols.
Referring to Figure l, at 100 a MCM transmitter is shown that substantially corresponds to a prior art MCM transmit-ter. A description of such a MCM transmitter can be found, for example, in William Y. Zou, Yiyan Wu, "COFDM: AN
OVERVIEW", IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, vol. 41, No.
1, March 1995.
A data source 102 provides a serial bitstream 104 to the MCM
transmitter. The incoming serial bitstream 104 is applied to a bit-carrier mapper 106 which produces a sequence of spec-tra 108 from the incoming serial bitstream 104. An inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) 110 is performed on the se-quence of spectra 108 in order to produce a MCM time domain signal 112. The MCM time domain signal forms the useful MCM
symbol of the MCM time signal. To avoid intersymbol inter-s ference (ISI) caused by multipath distortion, a unit 114 is provided for inserting a guard interval of fixed length be-tween adjacent MCM symbols in time. In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the last part of the useful MCM symbol is used as the guard interval by placing same in front of the useful symbol. The resulting MCM symbol is shown at 115 in Figure 1 and corresponds to a MCM symbol 160 depicted in Figure 4.
Figure 4 shows the construction of a typical MCM signal hav-ing a frame structure. One frame of the MCM time signal is composed of a plurality of MCM symbols 160. Each MCM symbol 160 is formed by an useful symbol 162 and a guard interval 164 associated therewith. As shown in Figure 4, each frame comprises one reference symbol 166. The present invention can advantageously be used with such a MCM signal, however, such a signal structure being not necessary for performing the present invention as long as the transmitted signal com-prises a useful portion and at least one reference symbol.
In order to obtain the final frame structure shown in Figure 4, a unit 116 for adding a reference symbol for each prede-termined number of MCM symbols is provided.
In accordance with the present invention, the reference sym-bol is an amplitude modulated bit sequence. Thus, an ampli-tude modulation of a bit sequence is performed such that the envelope of the amplitude modulated bit sequence defines a reference pattern of the reference symbol. This reference pattern defined by the envelope of the amplitude modulated bit sequence has to be detected when receiving the MCM sig-nal at a MCM receiver. In a preferred embodiment of the pre-y sent invention, a pseudo random bit sequence having good autocorrelation properties is used as the bit sequence for the amplitude modulation.
The choice of length and repetition rate of the reference symbol depends on the properties of the channel through which the MCM signal is transmitted, e.g. the coherence time of the channel. In addition, the repetition rate and the length of the reference symbol, in other words the number of useful symbols in each frame, depends on the receiver re-quirements concerning mean time for initial synchronization and mean time for resynchronization after synchronization loss due to a channel fade.
The resulting MCM signal having the structure shown at 118 in Figure 1 is applied to the transmitter front end 120.
Roughly speaking, at the transmitter front end 120, a digi-tal/analog conversion and an up-converting of the MCM signal is performed. Thereafter, the MCM signal is transmitted through a channel 122.
Following, the mode of operation of a MCM receiver 130 is shortly described referring to Figure 1. The MCM signal is received at the receiver front end 132. In the receiver front end 132, the MCM signal is down-converted and, fur-thermore, a analog/digital conversion of the down-converted signal is performed.
The down-converted MCM signal is provided to a symbol frame/carrier frequency synchronization unit 134.
A first object of the symbol frame/carrier frequency syn-chronization unit is to perform a frame synchronization on the basis of the amplitude-modulated reference symbol. This frame synchronization is performed on the basis of a corre lation between the amplitude-demodulated reference symbol an a predetermined reference pattern stored in the MCM re ceiver.
A second object of the symbol frame/carrier frequency syn-chronization unit is to perform a coarse frequency synchro-nization of the MCM signal. To this end, the symbol frame/carrier frequency synchronization unit 134 serves as a coarse frequency synchronization unit for determining a coarse frequency offset of the carrier frequence caused, for example, by a difference of the frequencies between the lo-cal oscillator of the transmitter and the local oscillator of the receiver. The determined frequency is used in order to perform a coarse frequency correction. The mode of opera-tion of the coarse frequency synchronization unit is de-scribed in detail referring to Figures 2 and 3 hereinafter.
As described above, the frame synchronization unit 134 de-termines the location of the reference symbol in the MCM
signal. Based on the determination of the frame synchroniza-tion unit 134, a reference symbol extracting unit 136 ex-tracts the framing information, i.e. the reference symbol, from the MCM signal coming from the receiver front end 132.
After the extraction of the reference symbol, the MCM signal is applied to a guard interval removal unit 138. The result of the signal processing performed hereherto in the MCM re-ceiver are the useful MCM symbols.
The useful MCM symbols output from the guard interval re-moval unit 138 are provided to a fast Fourier transform unit 140 in order to provide a sequence of spectra from the use ful symbols. Thereafter, the sequence of spectra is provided to a carrier-bit mapper 142 in which the serial bitstream is recovered. This serial bitstream is provided to a data sink 144.
Following, the mode of operation of the coarse frequency synchronization unit will be described in detail referring to Figures 2 and 3 . As it is shown in Figure 2 , the output of the receiver front end 132 is connected to an ana-log/digital converter 200. The down-converted MCM signal is sampled at the output of the analog/digital converter 200 and is applied to a frame/timing synchronization unit 202.
In a preferred embodiment, a fast running automatic gain control (AGC) (not shown) is provided preceding the frame/timing synchronization unit in order to eliminate fast channel fluctuations. The fast AGC is used in addition to the normally slow AGC in the signal path, in the case of transmission over a multipath channel with long channel im-pulse response and frequency selective fading. The fast AGC
adjusts the average amplitude range of the signal to the known average amplitude of the reference symbol.
As described above, the frame/timing synchronization unit uses the amplitude-modulated sequence in the received signal in order to extract the framing information from the MCM
signal and further to remove the guard intervals therefrom.
After the frame/timing synchronization unit 202 it follows a coarse frequency synchronization unit 204 which estimates a coarse frequency offset based on the amplitude-modulated se-quence of the reference symbol of the MCM signal. In the coarse frequency synchronization unit 204, a frequency off-set of the carrier frequency with respect to the oscillator frequency in the MCM receiver is determined in oder to per-form a frequency offset correction in a block 206. This fre-quency offset correction in block 206 is performed by a com-plex multiplication. The output of the frequency offset cor-rection block 206 is applied to the MCM demodulator 208 formed by the Fast Fourier Transformator 140 and the car-rier-bit mapper 142 shown in Figure 1.
In order to perform the inventive coarse frequency synchro-nization, in either case, an amplitude-demodulation has to be performed on a preprocessed MCM signal. The preprocessing may be, for example, the down-conversion and the ana-log/digital conversion of the MCM signal. The result of the amplitude-demodulation of the preprocessed MCM signal is an envelope representing the amplitude of the MCM signal.
For the amplitude demodulation a simple alphamax+ betami"-method can be used. This method is described for example in Palacherla A.: DSP-uP Routine Computes Magnitude, EDN, Octo-ber 26, 1989; and Adams, W. T., and Bradley, J.: Magnitude Approximations for Microprocessor Implementation, IEEE Mi-cro, Vol. 3, No. 5, October 1983.
It is clear that amplitude determining methods different from the described alphamaX+ betami"- method can be used. For simplification, it is possible to reduce the amplitude cal-culation to a detection as to whether the current amplitude is above or below the average amplitude. The output signal then consists of a -1/+1 sequence which can be used to de-termine a coarse frequency offset by performing a correla-tion. This correlation can easily be performed using a sim-ple integrated circuit (IC).
In addition, an oversampling of the signal received at the RF front end can be performed. For example, the received signal can be expressed with two times oversampling.
In accordance with a first embodiment of the present inven-tion, a carrier frequency offset of the MCM signal from an oscillator frequency in the MCM receiver is determined by correlating the envelope obtained by performing the ampli-tude-demodulation as described above with a predetermined reference pattern.
In case there is no frequency offset, the received reference symbol r(k) will be:
r(k) = S,,~, (k) + n(k) ( Eq .1 ) wherein n(k) designates "additive Gaussian noise" and 5,~,, de-notes the AM sequence which has been sent. In order to sim-plify the calculation the additive Gaussian noise can be ne-glected. It follows:
r(k) ~ SAM (k) ( Eq' 2 ) In case a constant frequency offset f is present, the re-ceived signal will be:
r (k) ='SAM (k) ~e~2~TMCM ( Eq. 3 ) Information regarding the frequency offset is derived from the correlation of the received signal r ( k ) with the AM se-quence S"~, which is known in the receiver:
L L
2 r(k).S~(k)= Z IS~(k)IZe~z~TM~M (Eq.4) Thus, the frequency offset is:
_r. _L
Of 2~'T arg r(k) ~ SAM ~k~ 2~T arg ~SA"' (k)~ ( Eq. 5 ) MCM ~ MCM
Since the argument of ~S~,,(k)~Z is zero the frequency offset is:
_L
Of = 1 arg i- (k) ~ 5;~,,,, (k) ( Eq . 6 ) 2~TMCM
In accordance with a second embodiment of the coarse fre-quency synchronization algorithm in accordance with the pre-sent invention, a reference symbol comprising at least two identical sequences 300 as shown in Figure 3 is used. Figure 3 shows the reference symbol of a MCM signal having two identical sequences 300 of a length of L/2 each. L desig-nates the number of values of the two sequences 300 of the reference symbol.
As shown in Figure 3, within the amplitude-modulated se-quence, there are at least two identical sections devoted to the coarse frequency synchronization. Two such sections, each containing L/2 samples, are shown at the end of the am-plitude-modulated sequence in Figure 3. The amplitude-modulated sequence contains a large number of samples. For a non-ambiguous observation of the phase, only enough samples to contain a phase rotation of 2 should be used. This num-ber is defined as L/2 in Figure 3.
Following, a mathematical derivation of the determination of a carrier frequency deviation is presented. In accordance with Figure 3, the following equation applies for the two identical sequences 300:
sI0<ks 2J $sI 2 <ksLl (Eq.7) If no frequency offset is present, the following equation 8 will be met by the received signal:
rI k+ZJ ~r(k) 0<ks 2 (Eq.8) r ( k ) designates the values of the identical sequences . k is an index from one to L/2 for the respective samples.
If there is a frequency offset of, for example, f, the re-ceived signal is:
r(k)=r(k)~e'z~"'T"'~"' (Eq.9) L j2nAj(k+2)TMCAt r(k+ 2)=r(k)~e (Eq.lO) r(k) designates sample values of the received portion which are based on the identical sequences. Information regarding the frequency offset is derived from the correlation of the received signal r (k +L /2) with the received signal r (k) . This correlation is given by the following equation:
_L 1, r' k+ ~ i-~k)= Z Ir(k)IZe'Z'~ZTMCM (Eq.ll) r' designates the complex conjugate of the sample values of the portion mentioned above.
Thus, the frequency offset is _L _L
0f = Ll arg r k+ ~ W '(k) - L1 arg Ir(k~2 (Eq.l2) 2~ 2 TMCM 2~ 2 TMCM
Since the argument of ~r(k)~Z equals zero, the frequency offset becomes _L
0f = Ll arg r k + ~ W '(k) ( Eq.13 ) 2~ 2 TMCM
Thus, it is clear that in both embodiments, described above, the frequency position of the maximum of the resulting out-put of the correlation determines the estimated value of the offset carrier. Furthermore, as it is also shown in Figure 2, the correction is performed in a feed forward structure.
An apparatus for performing the coarse frequency synchroni-zation using a reference symbol having two identical sec-tions of the length of L/2 each which has been described above is shown in Figure 5.
Also shown in Figure 5 is the frame/timing synchronization unit 202. As can be seen from Figure 5, a unit 400 for per-forming a fast automatic gain control (time constant < MCM
symbol duration) can be provided preceding the frame/timing synchronization unit. The output of the frame/timing syn-chronization unit 202 is connected to an extracting unit 402 which is operable to extract the last L samples from the reference symbol. The output of the extracting unit 402 is connected to a demultiplexer 404 which recovers the two identical sections having the length of L/2 each from the L
samples. The identical sections are applied to a correlator 406 which performs the correlation as described above.
The output of the correlator 406 is connected to an opera-tion unit 408 for performing an argument operation on the output signal of the correlator 406. The output of the op-eration unit 408 is connected to a multiplier 410 which mul-tiplies the output by 1/2~(L /2)TMCM ) ~ A further operation unit 412 for performing a e-'~'~~"'~"'~L> operation is provided in order to derive the frequency shift for the whole MCM symbol from the frequency shift determined for the portion having the length of L, i.e. the identical sections 300 shown in Figure 3.
In case of a channel with strong reflections, for example due to a high building density, the correlations described above might be insufficient for obtaining a suitable coarse frequency synchronization. Therefore, in accordance with a third embodiment of the present invention, corresponding values of the two portions which are correlated in accor-dance with a second embodiment, can be weighting with corre-sponding values of stored predetermined reference patterns corresponding to said two identical sequences of the refer-ence symbol. This weighting can maximize the probability of correctly determining the frequency offset. The mathematical description of this weighting is as follows:
a ~f = L1 arg z r k + ~ W' ~k~ ~ S.vN ~k~n,N k + 2 ( Eq ~ 14 ) 2~ 2 TMCM
S"~, designates the amplitude-modulated sequence which is known in the receiver, and S;,,N designates the complex conju-gate thereof.
If the above correlations are calculated in the frequency domain, the amount of ~ r ~( (Eq.lS) I"_'i [ T' k + 2 ~ ~ ~'~k~~ ~ ~S",,, ~k~An, I k + 2 ~~
is used rather than the argument. This amount is maximized as a function of a frequency correction. The position of the maximum determines the estimation of the frequency devia-tion. As mentioned above, the correction is performed in a feed forward structure.
A block diagram of an apparatus for performing the coarse frequency synchronization in accordance with the third em-bodiment of the present invention is shown in Figure 6.
Blocks 400, 202, 402, 404 and 406 shown in the left branch of Figure 6 correspond to the respective blocks in Figure 5.
In the right branch of Figure 6, the preparation of the known AM sequence is shown. The known AM sequence is read from a memory 420 and applied to an extracting unit 422 which extracts the last L samples therefrom. The output of the extracting unit 422 is connected to a demultiplexer 424 having one input and two outputs in order to recover the identical sections having a length of L/2 each. Both outputs of the demultiplexer are connected with a correlator 426 which performs a correlation between the two identical sec-tions.
A multiplier 428 is provided which multiplies the output of the correlator 406 by the output of the correlator 426. The output of the multiplier 428 is connected to an argument op-eration unit 408. The output of the multiplier is applied to an argument operation unit 408, a multiplier 410 and an op-eration unit 412 in sequence. The mode of operation of these units corresponds to that of the corresponding units which are shown in Figure 5.
A alternative structure of an apparatus for performing the coarse frequency synchronization in accordance with the third embodiment of the present invention in the frequency domain is shown in Figure 7. As shown in Figure 7, a fast Fourier transformator 440 is provided between the demulti-plexer 404 and a correlator 442, and a fast Fourier trans-formator 444 is provided between the demultiplexer 424 and a correlator 426. The outputs of the correlators 442 and 446 are connected to a multiplier 445. The output of the multi-plier 445 is connected to a maximum searching unit 447. Fi-nally, a unit 448 for performing a e-'~'~"""'"'> operation is provided. The output of this unit 448 represents the output of the coarse frequency synchronization device.
In case of performing the coarse frequency synchronization in the frequency domain it is possible to make use of the existing FFT at the beginning of the detection for the coarse frequency synchronization rather than providing an additional fast Fourier transformator.
Following the course frequency synchronization described above, a fine frequency synchronization can be performed in case such a fine frequency synchronization is useful.
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1. A method of performing a coarse frequency synchroniza-tion compensating for a carrier frequency deviation from an oscillator frequency in a demodulation system capable of demodulating a signal having a frame struc-ture comprising at least one useful symbol and a refer-ence symbol, said reference symbol (166) being an am-plitude-modulated bit sequence, said method comprising the steps of:
receiving said signal;
down-converting said received signal;
performing an amplitude-demodulation of said down-converted signal in order to generate an envelope;
correlating said envelope with a predetermined refer-ence pattern in order to determine said carrier fre-quency deviation; and controlling said oscillator frequency based on said carrier frequency deviation.
receiving said signal;
down-converting said received signal;
performing an amplitude-demodulation of said down-converted signal in order to generate an envelope;
correlating said envelope with a predetermined refer-ence pattern in order to determine said carrier fre-quency deviation; and controlling said oscillator frequency based on said carrier frequency deviation.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein said carrier frequency deviation is determined as follows:
(Eq.6) wherein ~ designates values of said envelope of the received signal;
S~~, designates the complex conjugate of the values of the predetermined reference pattern;
T MCM designates the duration of said useful symbol;
k designates an index; and L/2 designates the half length of the sequence used for the coarse frequency synchronization.
(Eq.6) wherein ~ designates values of said envelope of the received signal;
S~~, designates the complex conjugate of the values of the predetermined reference pattern;
T MCM designates the duration of said useful symbol;
k designates an index; and L/2 designates the half length of the sequence used for the coarse frequency synchronization.
3. A method of performing a coarse frequency synchroniza-tion compensation for a carrier frequency deviation from an oscillator frequency in a demodulation system capable of demodulating a signal having a frame struc-ture, said frame structure comprising at least one use-ful symbol and a reference symbol, said reference sym-bol being an amplitude-modulated bit sequence which comprises two identical sequences, said method compris-ing the steps of:
receiving said signal;
down-converting said received signal;
performing an amplitude-demodulation of the down-converted signal in order to generate an envelope, said envelope having two portions which are based on said identical sequences;
correlating one of said portions of said envelope with another one of said portions in order to determine said carrier frequency deviation; and controlling said oscillator frequency based on said carrier frequency deviation.
receiving said signal;
down-converting said received signal;
performing an amplitude-demodulation of the down-converted signal in order to generate an envelope, said envelope having two portions which are based on said identical sequences;
correlating one of said portions of said envelope with another one of said portions in order to determine said carrier frequency deviation; and controlling said oscillator frequency based on said carrier frequency deviation.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein said correlating step further comprises weighting of corresponding values of said two portions with corresponding values of said two sequences.
5. The method of claim 3, wherein said carrier frequency deviation is determined as follows:
(Eq. 13) wherein ~ designates values of said portions;
~ designates the complex conjugate of said values of said portions;
T MCM designates the duration of said useful symbol;
k designates an index; and L designates the number of values of said two sequences of said reference symbol.
(Eq. 13) wherein ~ designates values of said portions;
~ designates the complex conjugate of said values of said portions;
T MCM designates the duration of said useful symbol;
k designates an index; and L designates the number of values of said two sequences of said reference symbol.
6. The method of claim 4, wherein said carrier frequency deviation is determined as follows:
(Eq. 14) wherein ~ designates values of said portions;
~ designates the complex conjugate of said values of said portions;
T MCM designates the duration of said useful symbol;
k designates an index;
L designates the number of values of said two sequences of said reference symbol;
S AM designates values of said identical sequences; and S AM designates the complex conjugate of said values of said identical sequences.
(Eq. 14) wherein ~ designates values of said portions;
~ designates the complex conjugate of said values of said portions;
T MCM designates the duration of said useful symbol;
k designates an index;
L designates the number of values of said two sequences of said reference symbol;
S AM designates values of said identical sequences; and S AM designates the complex conjugate of said values of said identical sequences.
7. The method according to claim 1, wherein said signal is an orthogonal frequency division multiplex signal.
8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of performing a fast automatic gain control of said received down-converted signal prior to the step of performing said amplitude-demodulation.
9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of performing said amplitude-demodulation comprises the step of calculating an amplitude of said signal using the alpha max+ beta min- method.
10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the steps of sampling respective amplitudes of said re-ceived down-converted signal and comparing said sampled amplitudes with a predetermined threshold in order to generate a bit sequence in order to perform said ampli-tude-demodulation.
11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the step of sampling respective amplitudes of said received down-converted signal further comprises the step of perform-ing an over-sampling of said received down-converted signal.
12. An apparatus for performing a coarse frequency synchro-nization compensating for a carrier frequency deviation from an oscillator frequency, for a demodulation system capable of demodulating a signal having a frame struc-ture, said frame structure comprising at least one use-ful symbol and a reference symbol, said reference sym-bol being an amplitude-modulated bit sequence, said ap-paratus comprising:
receiving means for receiving said signal;
a down-converter for down-converting said received sig-nal;
an amplitude-demodulator for performing an amplitude-demodulation of said down-converted signal in order to generate an envelope;
a correlator for correlating said envelope with a pre-determined reference pattern in order to determine said carrier frequency deviation; and means for controlling said oscillator frequency based on said carrier frequency deviation.
receiving means for receiving said signal;
a down-converter for down-converting said received sig-nal;
an amplitude-demodulator for performing an amplitude-demodulation of said down-converted signal in order to generate an envelope;
a correlator for correlating said envelope with a pre-determined reference pattern in order to determine said carrier frequency deviation; and means for controlling said oscillator frequency based on said carrier frequency deviation.
13. The apparatus of claim 12, comprising means for deter mining said carrier frequency deviation as follows:
(Eq.6) wherein ~ designates values of said portions;
S AM designates the complex conjugate of the values of the identical sequences;
T MCM designates the duration of said useful symbol;
k designates an index; and L/2 designates the number of values of the reference pattern.
(Eq.6) wherein ~ designates values of said portions;
S AM designates the complex conjugate of the values of the identical sequences;
T MCM designates the duration of said useful symbol;
k designates an index; and L/2 designates the number of values of the reference pattern.
14. An apparatus for performing a coarse frequency synchro-nization compensation for a carrier frequency deviation from an oscillator frequency, for a demodulation system capable of demodulating a signal having a frame struc-ture, said frame structure comprising at least one use-ful symbol and a reference symbol, said reference sym-bol being an amplitude-modulated bit sequence which comprises two identical sequences, said apparatus com-prising:
receiving means for receiving said signal;
a down-converter for down-converting said received sig-nal;
an amplitude-demodulator for performing an amplitude-demodulation of said down-converted signal in order to generate an envelope, said envelope having two portions which are based on said identical sequences;
a correlator for correlating one of said portions of said envelope with another one of said portions in or-der to determine said carrier frequency deviation; and means for controlling said oscillator frequency based on said carrier frequency deviation.
receiving means for receiving said signal;
a down-converter for down-converting said received sig-nal;
an amplitude-demodulator for performing an amplitude-demodulation of said down-converted signal in order to generate an envelope, said envelope having two portions which are based on said identical sequences;
a correlator for correlating one of said portions of said envelope with another one of said portions in or-der to determine said carrier frequency deviation; and means for controlling said oscillator frequency based on said carrier frequency deviation.
15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein said correlator com-prises means for weighting of corresponding values of said two portions with corresponding values of said two sequences.
16. The apparatus of claim 13, comprising means for deter-mining said carrier frequency deviation as follows:
wherein r designates values of said portions;
~ designates the complex conjugate of said values of said portions;
T MCM designates the duration of said useful symbol;
k designates an index; and L designates the number of values of said two sequences of said reference symbol.
wherein r designates values of said portions;
~ designates the complex conjugate of said values of said portions;
T MCM designates the duration of said useful symbol;
k designates an index; and L designates the number of values of said two sequences of said reference symbol.
17. The apparatus of claim 15, comprising means for deter-mining said carrier frequency deviation as follows:
wherein ~ designates values of said portions;
~* designates the complex conjugate of said values of said portions;
T MCM designates the duration of said useful symbol;
k designates an index;
L designates the number of values of said two sequences of said reference symbol;
S AM designates values of said identical sequences; and S~M designates the complex conjugate of said values of said identical sequences.
wherein ~ designates values of said portions;
~* designates the complex conjugate of said values of said portions;
T MCM designates the duration of said useful symbol;
k designates an index;
L designates the number of values of said two sequences of said reference symbol;
S AM designates values of said identical sequences; and S~M designates the complex conjugate of said values of said identical sequences.
18. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein said sig-nal is an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed signal.
19. The apparatus according to claim 13, further comprising means for performing a fast automatic gain control of said received down-converted signal preceding said am-plitude-demodulator.
20. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein said am-plitude-demodulator comprises means for calculating an amplitude of said signal using the alpha max+ beta min-method.
21. The apparatus according to claim 13, further comprising means for sampling respective amplitudes of said re-ceived down-converted signal, wherein said amplitude-demodulator comprises means for comparing said sampled amplitudes with a predetermined threshold in order to generate a bit sequence.
22. The apparatus according to claim 21, wherein said means for sampling comprises means for over-sampling said re-ceived down-converted signal.
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